- Issued:
- 2006-08-10
- Updated:
- 2006-08-10
RHEA-2006:0488 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
diskdumputils enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated diskdumputils packages that add various enhancements are now available.
Description
The diskdump utilities set up the kernel to save memory image to the
specified partition.
The following enhancements and fixes are applied by this update:
- This update fixes the determination of the SYSFSROOT variable by using
"grep -m 1" on /proc/mounts in order to avoid the double-setting of that
variable.
- The README file has been enhanced to further explain the proper usage of
a swap partition as a dump partition.
- The README file has also been enhanced to indicate that logical volumes
may not be specified as a dump partition.
- This update introduces a new "diskdump-success" script which can be
customized and then copied to the /var/crash/scripts directory. If the
file exists in /var/crash/scripts, it will be executed upon a successful
diskdump operation.
- Support has been added to handle the kernel's ability to sequence through
multiple dump partitions when one (or more) of them fail the diskdump
operation.
- Hugemem kernel panic messages are now copied to the log file.
- Fixed bug: when incomplete dumps were created in both a swap partition
and a dump partition, and the largest one was in the dump partition
(non-swap), both dumpfiles were mistakenly removed and no vmcore-incomplete
was created.
- This update also ensures that the largest dumpfile is copied to
vmcore-incomplete when multiple incomplete dumpfiles are created.
- Fixed: possible /sbin/diskdumpmsg failure after a kernel crash.
Users of diskdumputils should upgrade to these updated packages, which add
these enhancements and bug fixes.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 172432 - Lack of diskdump on swap partition explanation in doc
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 99d8d377b76d474e529e7838305d857a7cb52fc9447bc8f339602daafa190cce |
x86_64 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b2684b27ab5bf05df084279c9f11b8ace8c335253938155b00ee2bdb2c8ec020 |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b2684b27ab5bf05df084279c9f11b8ace8c335253938155b00ee2bdb2c8ec020 |
ia64 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: e77576ceaac8d9f814f83a2a4719569bfa6e7b289219b464ab509583c43a6660 |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: e77576ceaac8d9f814f83a2a4719569bfa6e7b289219b464ab509583c43a6660 |
i386 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 2913a391d749fb9bf4658ab1911c294aee820002decd3a11977645c8568c3069 |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 2913a391d749fb9bf4658ab1911c294aee820002decd3a11977645c8568c3069 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 99d8d377b76d474e529e7838305d857a7cb52fc9447bc8f339602daafa190cce |
x86_64 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b2684b27ab5bf05df084279c9f11b8ace8c335253938155b00ee2bdb2c8ec020 |
ia64 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: e77576ceaac8d9f814f83a2a4719569bfa6e7b289219b464ab509583c43a6660 |
i386 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 2913a391d749fb9bf4658ab1911c294aee820002decd3a11977645c8568c3069 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 99d8d377b76d474e529e7838305d857a7cb52fc9447bc8f339602daafa190cce |
x86_64 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b2684b27ab5bf05df084279c9f11b8ace8c335253938155b00ee2bdb2c8ec020 |
i386 | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 2913a391d749fb9bf4658ab1911c294aee820002decd3a11977645c8568c3069 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 99d8d377b76d474e529e7838305d857a7cb52fc9447bc8f339602daafa190cce |
ppc | |
diskdumputils-1.3.15-1.ppc64.rpm | SHA-256: e0876f4670bd7111b47df309d8c8bb885d4d3b07757f36c383149b6ef1312d56 |
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